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According to Q13 Fox, Nina Perez and Michael Bernard were arrested on Friday in connection with the death of three-month-old Jazon Gregory. The newborn’s death was ruled a homicide after he was found dead in a Redmond, Washington apartment on February 17.
Eighteen-year-old Kamaria Weston, Jazon’s mother, left her baby with Perez to visit her boyfriend. The woman had been the mom’s doula.
“I felt good about it. I thought, ‘Okay, my child is good, let me have a little bit of fun,’” Weston told the news outlet. “She was there when Jazon was born; she cut his umbilical cord.”
The young mother said she left her child with Perez and Bernard, the doula’s boyfriend, for three days and regularly checked in on the baby.
“I talked to them literally every day, multiple times a day,” she explained.
The grieving mother began to worry after both Perez and Bernard stopped answering her calls. Weston was shocked to learn her little Jazon was dead.
“At first, I’m like, ‘There’s no way it’s my baby. I called them both over 100 times,” Kamaria said.
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Soon after, police called Weston and informed her that her son had passed away.
“I want to hurt her myself, but I can’t. I just want them to be locked up. For the longest time, I didn’t believe it until I saw him face-to-face, like ‘oh my gosh, he’s really gone,'” she said.
Weston maintained that she’s yet to hear from the woman who helped bring Jazon into the world, and she believes Perez has blocked her number.
According to the medical examiner’s office report conducted last week, the baby’s death was ruled a homicide. His cause of death was dehydration.
Both suspects are facing charges of second-degree murder and are being held at the King County Correctional Facility.